The Buddha: The Story of Siddhartha

Two and a half millennia ago a new religion was born in northern India generated from the ideas of a single man the Buddha a mysterious Indian sage who famously gained enlightenment while he sat under a large shapely fig tree. The Buddha never claimed to be God or his emissary on earth. He said only that he was a human being who in a world of unavoidable pain and suffering had found a kind of serenity that others could find too. This documentary by award-winning filmmaker David Grubin tells the story of his life a journey especially relevant in our own bewildering times of violent change and spiritual confusion. Richard Gere narrates.